Noel Sharkey...

[sensaes]

...is beginning to sound like one of those blokes in the pub who sits nursing a pint, and occasionally shouts, to no one in particular, "Robots! Taking over the world!"

Here's what he actually said this time:

"How long is it going to be before the terrorists get in on the act? With the current prices of robot construction falling dramatically and the availability of ready-made components for the amateur market, it wouldn't require a lot of skill to make autonomous robot weapons."

(http://www.sott.net/articles/show/149895-Killer-robots-pose-latest-militant-threat-expert)

And here's what he said last August, in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/18/comment.military

Sharkey's book, Connectionist Natural Language Processing: Readings from CONNECTION SCIENCE (1992, Springer) will set you back $189 from Amazon.com, although this women's "babydoll tee shirt", from the same online retailer, costs just $12.99:



Choose wisely.

Before the robots get you...

Edit (20:30 GMT): disinfo catches up with the story...

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Automated-Killer-Robots-Threat-to-Humanity

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Earthquake Edit: Down to Earth with a bump, indeed. Although it wasn't just the UK (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266136.stm) that got the wobbles last night...

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/149887-Magnitude-6-4-Earthquake-Hits-Islands-South-of-Tokyo-USGS-Says

Oh, and Iran too:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/149903-Minor-quake-hits-southeastern-Iran

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Third Runway Protest Update: Gits. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7266512.stm

Forget what I said here: http://sensaes.livejournal.com/481664.html

The next lot to try something like that?

Shoot first, and F*CK asking questions later...